reverse engineer

created by JeffMagnus

(thing) by tribbel (1.9 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Sep 01 2000 at 20:23:17

verb, to generate the (human readable) source code for a computer program by using nothing but the machine code and the result of running the compiled program. Basically the opposite of to compile.

Reverse engineering is usually restricted by software licences.

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Time paradox	10NES	compile	BFG9000

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